Chapter 262 273 [The beauty of plumpness and thinness, the daughter of the Jiang family has grown up]

After the meeting, Han Sanping called Li Yishu to his office.

“Wang Fulin is too persistent. Filming is different from TV dramas. This movie is not only for domestic audiences, but also for overseas audiences. How can we increase the box office if we don’t choose a few well-known overseas actors?”

Han Sanping has always been inclined to use well-known actors, but now the actors of “Romance of the Three Kingdoms”, except for some actors like Tang Guoqiang who are very famous in the mainland, most of them are unknown actors.

Without watching the full version of the TV series, Han Sanping didn’t think these actors could bear the huge investment of 500 million RMB.

Looking at the angry Han Sanping, Li Yishu chuckled and said, “Uncle San, Director Wang is doing this for the good of our movie. It’s not impossible to choose the same actors from the TV series, but Romance of the Three Kingdoms will be aired before the end of the year. If the same old actors are used, the audience will lose their sense of freshness. At the same time, as you said, choosing some well-known actors will help increase our overseas box office.”

Han Sanping agreed, “That’s right! This movie has such a huge investment, how can we increase the box office if we don’t cast some actors who are more famous overseas?”

“Take your time. We can’t rush the casting. The filming period for Red Cliff of the Three Kingdoms is long, so we can take our time in selecting the actors. We need to try to make it fit the original novel while also making the audience feel identified with it.”

Regarding the use of actors, Lee Yi-su still agrees with Han Sam-pyeong’s idea of ​​using new faces.

The actors in the old version of Romance of the Three Kingdoms did have first-rate acting skills and they performed to the essence, but TV series and movies are two completely different film and television arts. When audiences spend money to buy tickets to go to the cinema, they naturally hope to see more popular stars.

The star effect is still very strong these days, unlike the era of special effects blockbusters later, when actors basically served the special effects.

Nowadays, a popular actor can actually drive up the box office.

Especially when it comes to Hong Kong and Taiwan stars, not to mention the representative ones like Shuang Zhou and Yi Cheng, just the Four Heavenly Kings of Hong Kong who have been popular in Southeast Asia in recent years, and the new singer from Taiwan, Little Tornado Lin Zhiyin, the companies behind them are already quite mature and experienced in harvesting fan economy.

To put it bluntly, it is just like the traffic stars that came later. So many movies and TV series invite traffic stars to join. In addition to the capital pushing behind the scenes, it ultimately depends on the fans of these traffic stars who will really spend real money to buy movie tickets and peripheral products.

Moreover, today’s celebrities all have good singing voices and good looks, so naturally they have more fans who are willing to spend money.

Li Yishu is the director of a major online movie, so he naturally doesn’t worry about whether to use popular stars or not. What’s more, most stars these days are very dedicated, much better than the young and handsome actors of the future. In his opinion, there is nothing wrong in selecting some popular stars to join the movie and increase the box office.

“By the way, Yishu, Japan’s Toho Company recommended a few actors to come over. Do you think they would like to come?”

“This one……”

Li Yishu pondered for a moment, nodded and said, “It can be used, but it is best to use marginal characters, such as Cao Hong and Zhou Tai.”

Japan is now the world’s second largest movie box office. The main box office market for “Red Cliff” in the future will be in Japan. If a Japanese actor is not used, it will be difficult to carry out subsequent promotion there.

Han Sanping replied: “Okay, I’ll discuss it with Director Wang and the others later.”

After leaving the Beijing Film Studio, Li Yishu drove back to the company, but when he arrived at Chang’an Avenue, he saw that part of the road was blocked and there were excavators working.

Is Chang’an Avenue going to be expanded so early?

Li Yishu knew that Chang’an Avenue would be expanded in the future, and thought it would be around 2000, but he didn’t expect that construction would start so early.

Fortunately, the road near the Art Film Company had not been built yet. After he drove his car to the downstairs of the company, he was thinking about buying a building and preparing to relocate the company.

The company’s current floor is rented. The area is not large, but it is about 300 square meters. However, as the company develops in the future, it will have to launch artist projects and film and television projects, and this area will not be enough.

“boss!”

When the girl at the front desk saw the person coming, she quickly walked around the counter.

“Well, is Manager Yong here?”

“Boss, Manager Yong is in the conference room discussing work with someone.”

“With whom?”

“Ms. He Xiuqiong from Baodao Keren Communication Co., Ltd.”

At this point, the girl at the front desk asked, “Boss, do you need me to go in and report it?”

He Xiuqiong?
Li Yishu raised her eyebrows and said, “No need. When Manager Yong comes out later, ask her to come to my office directly.”

“Good boss.”

After giving the order, Li Yishu turned around and walked into the office.

On the other side, in the meeting room.

Yongmei was chatting with He Xiuqiong.

She said with a smile on her face, “Ms. He, please tell Ms. Qiong Yao about Chen Hong’s agency contract when you go back. Thank you very much.”

“Haha, Manager Yong is so polite. I’ll tell my mother-in-law when I get back.”

He Xiuqiong smiled and said that selling Chen Hong’s contract to the art film company would definitely be a sure win for her.

After all, he had only signed the contract with Chen Hong for more than a year, and he had earned more than one million from the contract transactions, and also did Li Yishu a favor. Who wouldn’t be happy?

“By the way, Manager Yong, is Director Li still short of actors for his Three Kingdoms Red Cliff?”

He Xiuqiong smiled and said, “We have many excellent actors in our company.”

Yongmei shook her head and said, “Ms. He, I’m not too sure about the casting of the crew, but I’ll talk to Director Li when he comes back. I think if your company has suitable artists, Director Li will definitely give it serious consideration.”

“Then I’ll trouble Manager Yong.”

“Ms. He, you are so polite. You have helped me a lot.”

After exchanging a few compliments and chatting for a while, He Xiuqiong finally stood up and prepared to leave, and Yongmei also went out to see her off warmly.

After sending He Xiuqiong away, just when Yongmei was about to return to her office, the receptionist came up to her and said, “Manager Yong, the boss is here. He is waiting for you in the office.”

“The boss is here?” Yongmei was very surprised and nodded: “Okay, I get it, go and do your work.”

“Okay, Manager Yong.”

After the receptionist left, Yongmei went straight to Li Yishu’s office.

“咚咚-“

I knocked on the door and a voice came from inside: “Come in!”

After opening the door and coming in, Yongmei asked curiously: “Boss, when did you come back?”

“Just got back.” Li Yishu pointed to the chair in front of her, asked the other party to sit down, and then asked, “Just now I heard from the front desk that you were meeting with He Xiuqiong. Did you get the contract with Chen Hong?”

Yongmei said, “Yes, boss, it’s been settled. Ms. He is very easy to talk to. After paying the penalty, Chen Hong’s contract has been transferred to our company.” “Well, that’s good.” Li Yishu nodded: “Has the script of “Legend of the Han Palace” been written?”

“It’s still being written, but it should be finished soon. I have already contacted the director Chen Jialin who previously filmed “Tang Ming Huang”. Director Chen is very interested in this script and agreed to be the director of this TV series when he came over the day before yesterday.”

Chen Jialin?
Li Yishu had a strange look on his face, he remembered that the original TV series “Flying Swallow in the Han Palace” seemed to be directed by Chen Jialin. After all, “Tang Minghuang” was filmed so successfully, it perfectly displayed the plump beauty of Yang Yuhuan.

Now that the fat part has been photographed, Chen Jialin will naturally think about photographing the thin part.

“Boss, isn’t Director Chen suitable?”

Yongmei noticed that Li Yishu had a strange expression on her face and started asking nervously.

This “Legend of the Han Palace” was her first time as a producer and she was fully responsible for personnel screening. She spent a lot of energy on this and finally chose the director Chen Jialin.

There are many directors in China who are currently shooting costume historical dramas, but not many of them can truly capture the classical temperament.

The TV series “Tang Minghuang” broadcasted last year had a profound impact on Yongmei. Lin Fangbin, who was not particularly stunning at first, became a classic of the generation when her interpretation of Yang Yuhuan became a classic under the direction of Chen Jialin, truly demonstrating the beauty of fatness in the heyday of the Tang Dynasty.

“No, he’s quite suitable.”

Li Yishu looked at the other person with a smile: “Director Chen Jialin brought the historical female characters played by Lin Fangbin in “Tang Minghuang” and Liu Xiaoqing in “Empress Wu Zetian” to life. It was a wise decision to ask him to shoot “Legend of the Han Palace”.”

Hearing this, Yongmei breathed a sigh of relief: “I also saw that Director Chen’s makeup and styling in the TV series “Tang Minghuang” were amazing, so I thought of inviting him to direct this TV series.”

“Well, the most important thing for a costume drama is makeup, and Director Chen Jialin is very capable in this regard.”

Li Yishu nodded in agreement. The styling of mainland costume dramas from the 8s to the 90s was truly stunning. The makeup of princesses, queens, and noble ladies were all different according to their identities and personalities.

It’s nothing like the later costume TV dramas, where every makeup and styling is minimalist.

A royal lady only has a hairpin on her head to tie her hair up, which looks extremely simple, and the overall style is similar. It is no exaggeration to say that nine out of ten makeup styles are the same, which does not highlight the character image at all.

Li Yishu talked to Yongmei about the company’s business for a while, and then mentioned the matter of relocating the company: “Look for a suitable place recently and buy a building. If there is a suitable piece of land, we can also buy a piece of land and build it ourselves.”

“Building an office building?”

Yongmei was extremely surprised. She just thought that the boss thought the current office area was too small and wanted to move to a larger office building. She didn’t expect that he would have to buy land and build it himself.

“If there is a suitable piece of land, we will buy it and build it ourselves. Now the company is gradually improving and formalizing. In the future, there will be corresponding departments within the company, including supporting facilities for the later departments.”

Li Yishu had the idea of ​​building a building by herself a long time ago, but she never had the time, and her company was not large, so she was not in a hurry.

But now that the TV drama department is beginning to move towards scale, the corresponding departments and equipment must be prepared in advance. We can’t just rent equipment and people from the Beijing Film Studio as before.

Now the company’s area is too small, and even if we recruit the right talents, there is no place for them to work.

As for buying a building, it is definitely not as comfortable as building it yourself.

Yongmei nodded and said, “Okay, boss. I’ll ask around later. But building a building might take a long time. Should we rent one temporarily?”

“Just buy it and see if there are any office buildings for sale.”

It is definitely not as cost-effective to rent a building now as to buy one. In a few years, the housing allocation policy will be stopped and the commercial housing policy will be implemented.

Taking advantage of the current low housing prices, some state-owned enterprises are eager to sell some storefront office buildings in order to fill the gap. It is still cost-effective and convenient to buy an office building near the Third Ring Road.

You have to know that the price difference between buying now and buying in a few years is not a little bit.

In the evening, inside a newly opened Sichuan hotpot restaurant in Wangfujing.

After school at the Beijing Film Academy, Jiang Qinqin followed Yu Feihong and rushed over in a hurry.

After seeing Li Yishu, Jiang Qinqin, who hadn’t seen him for almost two months, immediately threw herself into his arms and looked up and said, “Brother Yishu, you haven’t come to see me for a long time.”

“Haha, isn’t it because she’s busy with work, filming overseas? But after not seeing her for two months, Qinqin has become prettier again.”

Looking at Jiang Qinqin, whose baby fat had faded and whose facial features gradually grew into an oval face, Li Yishu couldn’t help but think of the scene at the Yi ethnic wedding…

That year, she was as pretty as a lotus and as charming as a peach blossom; now she is in her prime, pretty and charming.

Three years have passed in a blink of an eye. The Jiang family’s daughter has really grown up!

Being praised for her beauty, Jiang Qinqin immediately smiled happily: “Hehe, it’s okay, Brother Yishu, but you have become a lot darker.”

“Really? Maybe he got tanned from filming the location scenes.”

Li Yishu touched her face. The weather in Canada was okay, but she was inevitably a lot darker due to the wind and sun while filming by the lake.

Yu Feihong at the side interrupted with a smile: “Alright, alright, stop calling each other brother and sister. I just got off work and I’m almost starving.”

“Let’s go eat hot pot!”

Li Yishu waved his hand and took the two of them into the box.

This Sichuan hotpot restaurant was recently opened. Li Yishu saw this restaurant when she came to Wangfujing to look for a restaurant. She thought Jiang Qinqin probably hadn’t eaten Sichuan hotpot for a long time, so she called her to come over.

“Brother Yishu, is this hot pot restaurant newly opened? I didn’t see it when I came here last month.”

“Well, it’s newly opened. I thought you might not have had Sichuan hotpot for a long time, so I came to try it.”

“It’s delicious, Sister Feihong, why don’t you eat it?”

“I’m eating it. It’s a bit spicy.”

“Haha, spicy hotpot is delicious. The hotpot here in Yanjing is too bland.”

“…”

The meal lasted over an hour.

After eating, Li Yishu took the two of them directly back to the courtyard to live.

At around eleven o’clock at night, after seeing Jiang Qinqin fall asleep, Yu Feihong sneaked out of the east wing and came to the guest room where Li Yishu was temporarily staying.

We are at the age where we love food and sex, and since we haven’t seen each other for a long time, it was natural that we were very excited and couldn’t sleep all night.

(End of this chapter)